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Too much water going down the toilet

Too much water going down the toilet

Too much water going down the toilet JN Foundation is teaming up with two multinational organisations to have Jamaicans install low-flush toilets as a means of saving water to improve the country’s resilience to climate change events. Water adaptation expert and project manager for the Water Project Dr Kwame Emmanuel explained that more than 70 per cent of the water…

JN Partners With IDB On Water Conservation Loans

JN Partners With IDB On Water Conservation Loans

JN Group, through its bank and foundation, will be financing water projects from a $800 million pool of funds that are meant to make the commodity more accessible. Under an agreement signed Friday with the Inter-American Development Bank, JN Bank Limited will start issuing water loans from a $736 million cache to developers whose water projects include sustainable conservation measures. JN, which…

Gov’t endorses JN Water Adaptation Project

Gov’t endorses JN Water Adaptation Project

The Government has endorsed a $738.7-million (US$5.75 million) water adaptation project being initiated by the Jamaica National (JN) Group, with loan funding support from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The initiative will facilitate on-lending of the funds, through JN Bank, to real estate developers to finance housing projects incorporating water-efficiency technologies that yield conservation, particularly within households. These include rainwater…